Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Preserving Our Digital Knowledge Base Must be a Public Priority
Dollars Won’t Do It Alone: Deluge of Digital Data Needs Economically Sustainable Plans; Task Force Co-Chaired by Rensselaer Vice President
The Mathematics Behind a Good Night's Sleep
Why can’t I fall asleep? Will this new medication keep me up all night? Can I sleep off this cold? Despite decades of research, answers to these basic questions about one of our most essential bodily functions remain exceptionally difficult to answer. In fact, researchers still don’t fully understand why we even sleep at all.
PCs Around the World Unite To Map the Milky Way
Photo Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey Combined computing power of the MilkyWay@Home project recently surpassed the world’s second fastest supercomputer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Host 12th Annual Black Family Technology Awareness Day
More than 1,100 (and counting) area students and their families will visit Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to participate in the 12th annual Black Family Technology Awareness Day event, to be held February 6. The event, designed to spur young people’s interest in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, (STEM) and the arts, will be hosted by Rensselaer’s Office of Institute Diversity and the Office of Academic Outreach Programs.
Researchers Using Science To Decode the Secrets of Olympic Skeleton Sliding
Rensselaer researchers help athletes trim track times Olympic skeleton athletes will hit the ice next month in Vancouver, where one-hundredths of a second can dictate the difference between victory and defeat.
Sanmay Das Receives NSF CAREER Award
Sanmay Das, assistant professor of computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Das will use the five-year, $500,000 award to further his research into the dynamics of collective intelligence on the Web.
Rensselaer Receives More Than $10 Million in Recovery Act Funding
Rensselaer Receives More Than $10 Million in Recovery Act Funding Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has so far received more than $10 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
At Rensselaer, Another Record Year for Applications
More than 13,200 high school students have filed applications to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, according to numbers released today by Rensselaer Admissions. Applications are still being counted, but the current record total represents a growth of more than 8.8 percent since last year at this time.
Rensselaer Introduces the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
New identity, vision for former Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced today its Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems (DSES) will be renamed the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE). The change, effective immediately, was approved recently by the Board of Trustees upon recommendation of the department and the dean, and with the support of the provost and the president.